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scott blakeman, judy gold, and author of "the complete idiot's comedy writing," jim mendrinos. remember this, the next time a child is killed by a gun without a background check which u.s. senators will have blood on their hands. i'll be reading their names in my commentary, and that's next. >> john: so congratulations are in order to the nra the republicans and a few democrats. the tiniest weakest more flaccid possible reform comprehensive background checks to screen potentially dangerous people trying to buy guns, something that 90% of americans want, but the nra and minority of senators don't. welcome to the gun nation without representation, and the next time a child is killed by a gun, purchase without a background check please remember you built this. the courage shown by every day americans in boston has now been matched by the cowardice shown by 45 senators, senators who just helped guarantee that more and more americans will have the chance to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. a small number of lobbyists and gun manufacturers as the voice of the people, it would
scott blakeman, judy gold, and author of "the complete idiot's comedy writing," jim mendrinos. remember this, the next time a child is killed by a gun without a background check which u.s. senators will have blood on their hands. i'll be reading their names in my commentary, and that's next. >> john: so congratulations are in order to the nra the republicans and a few democrats. the tiniest weakest more flaccid possible reform comprehensive background checks to screen...
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for more let's brink in jim walsh, an expert at mit securities program. thank you for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> john: i know this has been a day fills with lots of irresponsible speculation so i thank you in advance for any guesswork you may be able to offer us. but can you tell us what kind of explosive device was used? >> it's less than military grade. it's not c-4 or a military grade explosive. the explosive itself, the bomb sat low in the container so much of the damage when it was released under cut people and possibly in the case of one of the fatalities, a child who would have been lower to the ground. but you know, we'll know a lot more in 24 hours. i take your caution here that we should be careful. we've already had a couple of reports i that's to be expected, in part fueled by comments made by the boston police, which is understandable because things are confusing at first. there was a report that the john f. kennedy president presidential library was part of it. the jfk library is some distance from the initial explosion. turns out t
for more let's brink in jim walsh, an expert at mit securities program. thank you for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> john: i know this has been a day fills with lots of irresponsible speculation so i thank you in advance for any guesswork you may be able to offer us. but can you tell us what kind of explosive device was used? >> it's less than military grade. it's not c-4 or a military grade explosive. the explosive itself, the bomb sat low in the container so much of the...
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hi tim. >> caller: it's jim. >> stephanie: okay then, hi, jim. >> caller: that's all right. i think the last guy was a little drunk but that's all right. two quick points. if this had had been a republican president i think he would have dedicated to how he allowed a terrorist act to take place. second point is -- >> stephanie: okay. are you going to compare this to 9-11? >> caller: one last point, i will be quiet. i promise. how about after 9-11, everyone was saying how george bush took everyone's freedoms away and obama was going to restore the freedoms, all of that. what happened to all of that? >> i have a problem with that. the patriot act should have been repealed. i have a problem with that. >> caller: so obama doubles the number of federal wiretaps. he expanded the patriot act. how are we more free with obama as president? >> stephanie: the difference is we do talk about that on the left. >> it is not because he's -- >> stephanie: not everything is cut-and-dried. i agree with the public safety exemption that he was not read miranda rights. but i disagree with john mc
hi tim. >> caller: it's jim. >> stephanie: okay then, hi, jim. >> caller: that's all right. i think the last guy was a little drunk but that's all right. two quick points. if this had had been a republican president i think he would have dedicated to how he allowed a terrorist act to take place. second point is -- >> stephanie: okay. are you going to compare this to 9-11? >> caller: one last point, i will be quiet. i promise. how about after 9-11, everyone was...
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jim ward on air guitar. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. todd in idaho, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, todd. >> caller: hi, how are ya? i was wondering why no one was talking about the warrantless access that the s.w.a.t. teams went from house to house in boston, i don't know if i would allow that. is that legal? >> stephanie: the house-to-house searches? >> caller: yeah. they have to have a warrant to do that, don't they? >> stephanie: i don't -- you know -- wow, i'm not certain. >> you would think. >> caller: i mean you were talking earlier about we live in a land of laws and that's one of the biggest ones -- >> how do you know they didn't have a warrant? >> caller: well, that's what i'm wondering. >> i think with something as high-pro file as this they wouldn't screw something like that up. >> stephanie: the miranda rights not being read right away -- clearly that was an emergency. perhaps i'm not as versed of my civil liberties as i should be. >> in danger of being punted. >> stephanie: exactly. >> talking to you sorority g
jim ward on air guitar. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. todd in idaho, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, todd. >> caller: hi, how are ya? i was wondering why no one was talking about the warrantless access that the s.w.a.t. teams went from house to house in boston, i don't know if i would allow that. is that legal? >> stephanie: the house-to-house searches? >> caller: yeah. they have to have a warrant to do that, don't they?...
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looks jim! who it is. >> announcer: and now on the phone from chicago -- >> hold on everybody it's road flare mary! >> stephanie: good morning mary. >> caller: good morning. i just had a comment. you keep bashing bush, okay. his legacy. what has the phony in the white house, what legacy does he have? why don't he open a museum in chicago? >> stephanie: because he's not done yet. >> in chicago and call it guns, blood, gangbangers, you know. why don't they do that? and maybe they can borrow from the film museum, you know, bushman, the gorilla over there. >> stephanie: oh, i see. is that a racial joke, mary? >> no. it would be an attraction. >> i see. [ wah wah ] >> stephanie: i think it is. you know, jim was right. come back. i think that sorority girl stole the phrase [ bleep ] from jim. because he left a message that melissa and i listened to on my machine. >> that's why jim left. >> stephanie: i've never heard that word used as a noun, verb, adjective, preposition. >> and an interjection for ex
looks jim! who it is. >> announcer: and now on the phone from chicago -- >> hold on everybody it's road flare mary! >> stephanie: good morning mary. >> caller: good morning. i just had a comment. you keep bashing bush, okay. his legacy. what has the phony in the white house, what legacy does he have? why don't he open a museum in chicago? >> stephanie: because he's not done yet. >> in chicago and call it guns, blood, gangbangers, you know. why don't they do...
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. >> of course jim is right but it's a super charged issue and made to order for whatever political agenda you are trying to forward. cenk: if it turns out it was an iranian agent which no one is claiming. >> i heard chenk uygur say that. i'm going to tweet that right now. cenk: do we have our tanks parked in downtown iran within a month? >> i would hope not but i think the damage that the mentality of the global war on terror, the fact that we framed the debate in the global war on terror, despite the fact that obama abandoned the terrible, it still exists. i find positive signs that we're dealing with this like a crime getting back to pre9/11 thinking, being somewhat reasonable in our response. we haven't had anyone say we are going to invade x y or z. cenk: because nobody knows yet. if it's a right winger, we are going to invade alabama. >> if it's a terrorist group i hope the response will be more directed and acute than in in the past, than our response to september 11. >> but that's a battle playing out. >> with all, you know, i was a reporter first for a long time, too and i get the
. >> of course jim is right but it's a super charged issue and made to order for whatever political agenda you are trying to forward. cenk: if it turns out it was an iranian agent which no one is claiming. >> i heard chenk uygur say that. i'm going to tweet that right now. cenk: do we have our tanks parked in downtown iran within a month? >> i would hope not but i think the damage that the mentality of the global war on terror, the fact that we framed the debate in the global...
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hey, jim, good to talk to you. >> good morning, bill. thanks for having me. >> bill: and neil king is also in studio with us as a friend of bill this hour. jim from your perspective, how has the sequester impacted your job? >> i can tell you bill as a controller for over 26 years at various facilities including the military, these are unique circumstances being forced off the job. >> bill: have you been furloughed? >> i am talking to you on my furlough day. >> bill: the first? >> yeah, between now september. >> bill: they have told you going to have to take one day a week. >> one day per pay period, and then fiscal year 2014 is looking like the same thing. >> and it's not as if you can be on furlough but decide i'm going to go work anyway. >> that's correct. you can't be called in for overtime, nothing. and that touches on something else. when i'm on my furlough day to save 8 hours of pay, they came up with a new overtime program, where if they need to call on overtime, they are allowed to call some for pay and a half but i can't make my
hey, jim, good to talk to you. >> good morning, bill. thanks for having me. >> bill: and neil king is also in studio with us as a friend of bill this hour. jim from your perspective, how has the sequester impacted your job? >> i can tell you bill as a controller for over 26 years at various facilities including the military, these are unique circumstances being forced off the job. >> bill: have you been furloughed? >> i am talking to you on my furlough day....
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by the way ambassador jim jones joining us at the top of the next hour. to talk about torture under george w. bush. speaking about george w. bush, a lot of comments on the bush library. bella says a library for what. for a coloring book or a pop-up pop-up -- picture book? i get it. this is a library to teach you how to read an upside down picture book. and on the senate, rick owning suggests i think somebody needs to start a campaign featuring unwanted posters. mugshots of senators and with a record of their votes against the public wishes like on the gun bill last week. good point! i like that. it is the "full court press" on tuesday morning. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: what do you say friends and neighbors? good morning, it is tuesday april 23rd. great to see you today. thank you so much for joining us here on the "full court press" on current tv. your morning roundup of the news of the day. and your morning town hall where you get a chance to speak out and sound off and express your opinion about what's going on here in our nation's capital around the c
by the way ambassador jim jones joining us at the top of the next hour. to talk about torture under george w. bush. speaking about george w. bush, a lot of comments on the bush library. bella says a library for what. for a coloring book or a pop-up pop-up -- picture book? i get it. this is a library to teach you how to read an upside down picture book. and on the senate, rick owning suggests i think somebody needs to start a campaign featuring unwanted posters. mugshots of senators and with a...
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this is shocking, jim. you will be shocked. new research confirms gun rampages are rising and armed civilians don't stop them. okay. we'll get to that. all of that stuff. >> stephanie: all of the stuff we've been talking about. because people like to say they don't have any -- yes we have facts! and statistics. all right. we'll get to all of that as we continue. 17 minutes after the hour. people carbonite. why? huh? why wouldn't you have carbonite just for the peace of mind alone. these days, everything we know or have is in our computers financial documents creative stuff, your music. >> videos. >> stephanie: right? you're busy. hard to remember stuff like that to back stuff up. remember you had to keep backing up. >> on floppy disks. >> stephanie: all the time. carbonite online back-up hassle free to back up your files. it backs up files to the cloud automatically and continuously when you're connected to the internet. carbonite does all of the work for you you don't have to remember to do it again. carbonite has a back-up pl
this is shocking, jim. you will be shocked. new research confirms gun rampages are rising and armed civilians don't stop them. okay. we'll get to that. all of that stuff. >> stephanie: all of the stuff we've been talking about. because people like to say they don't have any -- yes we have facts! and statistics. all right. we'll get to all of that as we continue. 17 minutes after the hour. people carbonite. why? huh? why wouldn't you have carbonite just for the peace of mind alone. these...
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he is a conservative republican, a former democratic member of congress jim jones and this study, this group looked at the question of torture and came to some amazing conclusions. number one, they said there is no doubt, no doubt, that the united states engaged in the practice of torture under the bush administration. this is just under george bush and dick cheney, number 1. we did engage in torture. it was illegal. it was against international law. number 3, we did it even though there is no firm or persuasive evidence, reading from the report, that they produced any valuable information or any information that we could not have gotten through other means, zero evidence of anything out of that torture. and he engaging in torture, from the bi-partisan report quote, damaged the standing of our nation reducedour capacity to enact moral 7censure and increased the danger to u.s. military personnel taken captive. we did it. it was illegal, we got nothing out of it. we damaged our standing, we made our own military -- put our own military more at risk and more in danger and then, finally th
he is a conservative republican, a former democratic member of congress jim jones and this study, this group looked at the question of torture and came to some amazing conclusions. number one, they said there is no doubt, no doubt, that the united states engaged in the practice of torture under the bush administration. this is just under george bush and dick cheney, number 1. we did engage in torture. it was illegal. it was against international law. number 3, we did it even though there is no...
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>> stephanie: jim is just throwing something out. >> i don't blame the holocaust on christianity. it was christians who stopped the holocausts. and i have met many muslims who are ashamed of this. >> stephanie: we're reading again, david, as you have been reporting all morning, officials are worried that suspects may have hidden other explosive de devices. and he is still described as on the run. and things are still very very tense in boston. >> yeah, still on the run, and strong suspicions that he might have a suicide vest or belt on. so when the time comes maybe he tries to take out as many people as possible. and that's why police are saying stay inside, there is no public transportation, but just to be careful, and also because this kid -- who the suspect that survived was a student of umass dartmouth, so umass dartmouth is closed today. they are asking for any help -- granted this kid's photo has been splashed all over the place for the last 24 hours, so there shouldn't be anybody more recognizable than this suspect, but they are worried that even if they do find him, he cou
>> stephanie: jim is just throwing something out. >> i don't blame the holocaust on christianity. it was christians who stopped the holocausts. and i have met many muslims who are ashamed of this. >> stephanie: we're reading again, david, as you have been reporting all morning, officials are worried that suspects may have hidden other explosive de devices. and he is still described as on the run. and things are still very very tense in boston. >> yeah, still on the run,...
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>> jim we are on a little bit of a delay but the people being evacuated and we have seen a lot of families. >> is there a place, a bus they are getting on? where is their safe place that they are being evacuated from their home? >> you know, we are seeing a lot of people just walk the cars. there is one gentleman across the street loading his car with blank et cetera, but we have not seen any large scale way of transporting them from the scene. we have certainly not seen that. we have seen people walking down the street to other vehicles. i am trying to take a look down the street. i am not seeing anything that would -- anything out of the ordinary. >> you have to wonder. they are being advised not to the obvious streets. you have to feel for these families now. >> in the immediate area. friends, family. there is some which is understandable with an event like this. being through the riots in los angeles, i can remember the confusion among people, you know, living in the community. you don't know what to do. and looks like the police helicopters are up now at this point. but some people ha
>> jim we are on a little bit of a delay but the people being evacuated and we have seen a lot of families. >> is there a place, a bus they are getting on? where is their safe place that they are being evacuated from their home? >> you know, we are seeing a lot of people just walk the cars. there is one gentleman across the street loading his car with blank et cetera, but we have not seen any large scale way of transporting them from the scene. we have certainly not seen that....